Controlled clinical comparison of plastic versus glass bottles of BacT/ALERT PF medium for culturing blood from children

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 445-447

  Petti, Cathy A ^a,c   Mirrett, Stanley ^a   Woods, Christopher W ^a   Reller, L Barth ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FUNGEMIA; GLASS BOTTLE; HUMAN; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASTIC BOTTLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE MEDIA; FUNGEMIA; GLASS; HUMANS; PLASTICS; YEASTS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 11844290739     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.1.445-447.2005     Document Type: Article

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